This Act may be cited as the Education Amendment Act, 1913, and shall form part of and be read together with the Education Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act (except section fifteen hereof) shall commence on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

All meetings of an Education Board shall be held at the office of that Board in the principal town of the district for which the Board is constituted.

Section forty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “and places,” and by omitting from subsection two the words “and place.”

Section seventy-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection one the following proviso:—

Section seventy-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting paragraph (d).

The body corporate or trustees of any secondary school or university college specified in the Eleventh Schedule to the principal Act, or of any high school established under section ninety-four of that Act, shall have power to hold, purchase, take, or otherwise acquire land as sites for any college or school buildings or teachers’ residences, or for any other purpose in connection with any such college or school.

Subsection one of section one hundred and ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “in that month,” the words “or on such later date (not being more than twenty-eight days later) as is fixed by the Board.”

Subsection one of section one hundred and eleven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “third Monday in April,” and substituting the words “seventh day before the date of the election.”

Section one hundred and twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “displayed,” the words “as soon as practicable”; and by omitting all words after the words “such Committee.”

Subsection one of section one hundred and thirteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “thirty-first day of March,” and substituting the words “last day of February.”

Section one hundred and forty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection five, and substituting the following subsection therefor:—

Section one hundred and forty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection:—

Where a child who is required to be enrolled on the register of some public school is not so enrolled the parent of the child is liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds.

The payment of any such fine shall not be a bar to further proceedings in case of further default.

This section is in substitution for section one hundred and fifty-two of the principal Act, and that section and the Tenth Schedule to that Act are hereby accordingly repealed.

Subsection one of section one hundred and fifty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “subsection one of” wherever they occur; and by omitting the words “every such week,” and substituting the words “every week.”

Subsection two of the said section one hundred and fifty-three is hereby amended by omitting all words down to and including the words “Provided that.”

Subsection one of section one hundred and seventy-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “thirty-first day of March,” and substituting the words “last day of February.”

Subsection five of section five of the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting the words “Subgrade 1a,” and substituting the words “Grade 1.”

Every teacher employed in any position in a public school shall so long as he remains in that position receive the annual increment mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, as amended by this Act.

Every such increment shall be by way of addition to the rate of salary payable on the thirty-first day of December immediately preceding, and shall commence,—

Nothing in this section shall entitle any teacher to a salary higher than the maximum for the grade or subgrade of salary attached to his position.

Section seven of the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by repealing subsection three, and by omitting from subsection four all words after the words “under this Act.”

Subsection eight of section seven of the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting the words “two years,” and substituting the words “three years,” and by inserting, after the word “salary,” the words “and allowances.”

This section shall be deemed to have been in operation as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

The First Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting the table in Part II, and substituting therefor the First Schedule hereto.

The Second Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby repealed, and the Second Schedule hereto substituted in lieu thereof.

Section twenty-nine of the Education Amendment Act, 1910, and the Schedule to the same Act are hereby repealed.

The Fourth Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by adding the following:—

Subsection one of section five of the Education Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “at such times,” the words “and to be held on such conditions.”